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Facing, Accepting, Growing and Expecting:

The Practical Experience of Nursing Students During
Their First Clinical Practice
Jia-Jing Sun1 Hui-Lin Sun2*
Background: Clinical practice experiences, while important, can be highly stressful for nursing students and have a
deep effect on their subsequent professional development.

Purpose: This study explored nursing student experiences during their first clinical practice.
Methods: The study used exploratory and descriptive research methodologies, and researchers selected a phenomenological approach to analysis. Nine nursing students described experiences centered on their first clinical practices using
daily dairies and assignments. Transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Results: Four major themes emerged from the data, including: (1) Joining an exciting and intimidating journey in

which participants anticipated a precious learning opportunity while fearing failure; (2) Identifying professional role
models in which participants learned about nursing content from nursing staff and through step by step instruction

from teachers; (3) Growing into caring relationships in which participants increasingly realized the importance of

communication, gave empathy and caring to patients, and discovered that patients are the best teachers; and (4) Insight

into self-professional capacity and the expectation of their future learning in which participants learned from actual
experience, evaluated self-performance and encouraged themselves. Such facilitated self-improvement and instilled the
learning necessary to advance to the next stage.

Conclusion: Nursing student clinical practice experiences may be used to both advance academic studies and enhance understanding of student feelings, difficulties and experiences. Such can assist nursing students to gain greater
positive experiences in their profession.

Key Words: nursing students, clinical practice, experiences.

RN, Student, School of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science; 2RN, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College.
Received: August 9, 2010
Revised: January 3, 2011
Accepted: February 15, 2011
*Address correspondence to: Hui-Lin Sun, No. 10, Lane 34, Qingshui St., Danshui District, New Taipei City 25174, Taiwan,
ROC.
Tel: +886 (2) 2858-4180 ext. 2292; E-mail: mjcn130@hotmail.com
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